70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.
17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-11 and snare through bars 12-70.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-13, 17-18 and 22-23, and 10 more places -- 42.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
12 13
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x-xxx-x-x-x-xxx-|x-x-x-xxx-x-x-x-|
BD |x-xxx-x-x-x-xxx-|x-x-x-xxx-x-x-x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 8 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.
79 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.
17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
70 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.